Your gaming "white whale"?

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Beating World of Warcraft. No savings, no deaths.

 

[InvisibleSeal]

I tend to give up when I realize I am not having fun at an activity I am not being paid for. That being said, I did blow a few evenings playing "I Wana be the Guy" before I realized it was not worth it.

Oh gooooooddddd I have no idea why I even tried that game. I was told it was insanely difficult, and yet I still wanted to play it. Why does it have such a hypnotic effect?

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this guy.... nuff said.

You fool! It's mathematically impossible!
ITT: I'm trying to get on the top 100 on the Ace Combat 6 soach board, and top rank in BF43
...
THAR SHE BLOWS!!!

Spoiler: I felt this was relevant :)

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[GreatVladmir]

Beating World of Warcraft. No savings, no deaths.

Good luck to you on that.

My gaming white whale is Morrowind, I can't finish it but everytime I loose my sanity and install it, I try so desperetly hard.

 

[cuddly_tomato]

If you don't get that reference, then go kick your English teacher's dog.

I love the reference Mr Starbuck! We be a chasin' that white whale! I never actually read it in school though, I had to read it myself.

The game that I would follow around perdition's flames before I gave it up would probably be trying to unlock every single character in all the Dynasty Warriors and Samurai Warriors series of games. I did rather find those games adorable.

 

[idiot445]

I played through the first Gears of War solo on the hardest difficulty. No stipulations beyond that, but beating Raam was one of the hardest things I've done in a game. I failed probably a hundred times or more and when I finally did it it was with my very last blind fired grenade after using all torque bow, sniper rifle, AND pistol ammo on him. Many many hours were spent swearing at the NPC Dom along the way.

 

[jmd102993]

i quit playing God of War 2 on titan when i reached the spiral staircase after beating the first two sisters of fate, Medusas and Sirens DONT MIX

 

[redsoxfantom]

Mile High Club on CoD4. That took hours away from my life. On the plus side, though, it was unbelievably satisfying to hear that "BLEEP-BLOOP."

 

[idiot445]

Mile High Club on CoD4. That took hours away from my life. On the plus side, though, it was unbelievably satisfying to hear that "BLEEP-BLOOP."

I pulled that one off too, and it was pretty crazy. I have since thought about going back and trying to do it with nothing but flash bangs and the knife, but I haven't lost my mind completely yet.

 

[Erana]

I've never had a gaming white whale; I always lose intrest within a week. Goodness I'm a terrible excuse for a gamer. I wish I could enjoy torturing myself with games...

 

[Ekonk]

Oh, and I don't get the reference! =P

Moby Dick.

 

[Arqus_Zed]

Sometimes...
At those peculiar and very rare moments...

When a very good jRPG comes along which that makes you waste hundreds of hours on it.
I've had that exactly five times in my life so far.

Also, the TimeSplitters series.
MUST HAVE EVERYTHING!
MUST GOLD/PLATINUM EVERYTHING!

 

[WorldCritic]

Beating the final level of Sonic 2 in 50 seconds. It's actually harder than it sounds. Also trying to beat I Wanna be the Guy at all. Also I've been working for a while on a Best Video Game Villains list but the problem with that is that I'm even more critical on those guys than Yahtzee is on just about anything.

 

[BonsaiTreee]

probably the final room in Pandora's temple in GOW. made it there with a 1/4 of the life bar and i cursed every minute of it.

 

[jultub]

Baldurs Gate 1

BG2 is my favorite game of all time, and yet still I haven't finished the first (after five attempts)

This is probably my single greatest gaming failure.

 

[Vivace-Vivian]

Left 4 Dead 1 Expert. I only have Blood Harvest to go!

 

[Baconmonster723]

Mass Effect 2 insanity. If anyone can beat that with no deaths, I salute them.
I mean, I still let myself die, but I'll salute any no death insanitiy-ers.

Took me 6 (restarting the game over) tries and 65 hours (on my final playthrough) to do it, but I just beat it not 5 days ago. Krogans and Harbingers are just......brutal. Oh, and none of my teammates died on the final mission. Needless to say, I'm pretty proud of myself right now.

 

[WindScar]

My White Wale is the final boss in Ninja Gaiden 2 on Path of The Master Ninja. I quit a long time ago, started again recently. WHITE WALE!!!! HOOOOOLY GRAAAAAIIIILLLL!

 

[oppp7]

I've had quite a few of these: Star Wars Rogue Squadren: get a gold medal on every level.
Star Fox 64: get a medal on every level in hard mode(can never get it for X/Z/Y? sector).
Guild Wars: God Walking Amongst Mere Mortals on all 7 characters(getting there).
Warcraft 3: Might go for Sylvanas avatar, but I wanted the Crypt Lord icon more(which I got, hooray!).
Super Smash Bros Brawl: Beat Boss Battles on Insane difficulty(actually completed this one. It was one of the happiest moments of my life).
Pokemon Platinum: Arceus, Mew, Celebi, and Deoxys. I'll get them eventually though...